Category: Biographies
Management of English Lighthouses--The Trinity House--Early History of this Corporation--Management of Lighthouses vested in--The Power of the Crown to grant Patents for Lighthouses-- Recent Law for the Regulation of Lighthouses--Revenue of Corporation--Rates of Dues--How coll...
History of the Inch-Cape or Bell-Rock Lighthouse as a Type of the Northern Lighthouses--Position and Dangerous Character of the Bell Rock--Ballad of Sir Ralph the Rover--Proposa...
18. CHAPTER IX.Imperfect Illumination of the old Lighthouses--First Improvements--The Argand Lamp and Reflecting Mirrors--Revolving Lights--The Catoptric System--Varieties of Lights--The Diopt...
12. CHAPTER III.The Eddystone Rocks are situated nearly S. S. W. from the middle of Plymouth Sound, and at a distance from the port of Plymouth of nearly fourteen miles. They are remarkable for...
14. CHAPTER V.A Stone Lighthouse proposed--Smeaton's first Visit to the Rock--Operations of the First Season--Second Season--Structure of the Foundation--Ingenious Mode of securing the Stones...
15. CHAPTER VI.Importance of Lighting the Scottish Coast--Formation of Board of Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses--Early Proceedings of the Board--Principal Northern Lighthouses--The Isle...
13. CHAPTER IV.Birth of Smeaton--His early Character and Employments--Educated for an attorney--His dislike of that profession--Becomes Philosophical Instrument Maker--His Scientific Inquiries...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Floating Lights--Objections to--Mitchell's Screw-moorings-- Experiments on the Maplin Sand--Foundation--Erection of Screw-pile Lighthouse--Details of the Wyre Lighthouse--Propos...
11. CHAPTER II.Management of English Lighthouses--The Trinity House--Early History of this Corporation--Management of Lighthouses vested in--The Power of the Crown to grant Patents for Lightho...
10. CHAPTER I.There is perhaps nothing better calculated to impress us with the skill and ingenuity of man, and the power which scientific knowledge imparts, than the sight of one of the beau...
7. CHAPTER VII.History of the Inch-Cape or Bell-Rock Lighthouse as a Type of the Northern Lighthouses--Position and Dangerous Character of the Bell Rock--Ballad of Sir Ralph the Rover-- Propos...
6. CHAPTER VI.Importance of Lighting the Scottish Coast--Formation of Board of Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses--Early Proceedings of the Board--Principal Northern Lighthouses--The Isle...
5. CHAPTER V.A Stone Lighthouse proposed--Smeaton's first Visit to the Rock--Operations of the First Season--Second Season--Structure of the Foundation--Ingenious Mode of securing the Stones...
2. CHAPTER II.Management of English Lighthouses--The Trinity House--Early History of this Corporation--Management of Lighthouses vested in--The Power of the Crown to grant Patents for Lightho...
4. CHAPTER IV.Birth of Smeaton--His early Character and Employments--Educated for an attorney--His dislike of that profession--Becomes Philosophical Instrument Maker--His Scientific Inquiries...
9. CHAPTER IX.Imperfect Illumination of the old Lighthouses--First Improvements--The Argand Lamp and Reflecting Mirrors--Revolving Lights--The Catoptric System--Varieties of Lights--The Diopt...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Floating Lights--Objections to--Mitchell's Screw-moorings-- Experiments on the Maplin Sand--Foundation--Erection of Screw-pile Lighthouse--Details of the Wyre Lighthouse--Propos...
3. CHAPTER III.1. CHAPTER I.